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Announcements => [x86] Announcements => Topic started by: iago on March 29, 2010, 12:30:14 pm

Title: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: iago on March 29, 2010, 12:30:14 pm
Apparently, now that I have a lot of bandwidth, being Slashdotted destroys my CPU. :)
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: Joe on March 29, 2010, 04:13:53 pm
g_g.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: rabbit on March 29, 2010, 04:50:21 pm
Stop getting posted on Slashdot.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: iago on March 29, 2010, 05:00:46 pm
So, I reconfigured Apache a little so it should be able to handle more traffic. That should make this kind of thing better.

I also have to get some caching in place for Wordpress. That'll be a little more effort.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: Sidoh on March 29, 2010, 08:02:01 pm
show off.

When I last dealt with Wordpress, it seemed like enabling Caching was pretty straightforward.  Maybe I'm remembering wrong?
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: deadly7 on March 29, 2010, 08:05:28 pm
Stop getting posted on Slashdot.
He posted himself on Slashdot.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: iago on March 30, 2010, 03:35:44 am
show off.

When I last dealt with Wordpress, it seemed like enabling Caching was pretty straightforward.  Maybe I'm remembering wrong?
Hmm, I don't know of any way to enable caching in Wordpress itself. I found a plugin for it called wp-super-cache or something like that, but it requires some configuration (a couple of Apache modules, like mod_rewrite, among other things -- I typically disable all modules) unless I need them.

Maybe there's an easier way that I just didn't know about, though. I'll have to take a look.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: iago on March 30, 2010, 03:39:37 am
Stop getting posted on Slashdot.
He posted himself on Slashdot.
It's just semantics, but both could be true. I submitted the story, they chose it and posted it.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: deadly7 on March 30, 2010, 03:56:24 am
It's just semantics, but both could be true. I submitted the story, they chose it and posted it.
Short of a picture of a penis, Slashdot will probably post most anything nowadays. A few years back it used to be much higher quality, but I remember reading some summaries now and then reading the actual article (which is a sin in and of itself) and wondering wtf the editors were thinking. Thank god you're not an idiot, though.
Title: Re: Sorry for downtime...
Post by: iago on March 30, 2010, 04:32:17 am
It's just semantics, but both could be true. I submitted the story, they chose it and posted it.
Short of a picture of a penis, Slashdot will probably post most anything nowadays. A few years back it used to be much higher quality, but I remember reading some summaries now and then reading the actual article (which is a sin in and of itself) and wondering wtf the editors were thinking. Thank god you're not an idiot, though.
I agree that they post a lot of crap, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get a story posted. They get thousands of submissions each day, and you have to do something to make yours stand out. There are a few tricks to doing that, but most stories I post have a key phrase to get people's attention -- you just have to know which buttons to push.

I thank God every day I'm not an idiot. :)